Shapeways wax prints:Very soft. I dropped one prior to casting and it was smushed up beyond use. The gorget broke off all four masters when I cut the mould.The quality is beautiful, with a nice, though slightly grainy, surface finish and decent detail. I prefer Sculpteo's hard wax for longevity, but they have quality issues (the bottom of prints lose detail)

Sculpteo wax prints:Wax is being taken off the Sculpteo webstore but you can still email for quotes.

Thats what i was thinking, I wonder how much more that will increase the cost of the print. I do feel that their pricing is very cheap compared to others out there, so the risk may be worth the reward?

I run a 3D printing service in Finland.It is called Protopaja Kalliokoski, web page http://proto-kk.fi is practically only in Finnish (at the moment.Main business is prototype production with 3D printing, but at the moment I'm trying to get mold making and resin casting going. (Those are not yet offered publicly to customers as I'm not yet satisfied with results.)I've got multiple machines and the line up is at the moment: Stratasys Dimension 1200 SST, ProJet 3510 SD, ZPrinters Z510 and Z450. So I have professional quality machines for FDM, UV hardened resin and full color sandstone. When compared to Shapeways the UV is same as Frosted Detail Plastic (not ultra nor extreme detail) and sandstone in my case is CMY and not CMYK and the accuracy on Z510 is officially same as in their newer model (Z450 is little bit less accurate.)

Interesting. The detail on their examples looks a bit soft in places, but it's hard to tell if that's just due to a design not particularly suitable for printing. Layer thickness is 50 microns - my understanding is that really you want to be under half that.